Arts
The Booth Centre offers people the opportunity to try new things. We recognise the importance of offering engaging, fun and meaningful activities for people to help them learn, build their skills and confidence, and make new friends. As part of helping people to move off the streets and breaking the cycle of homelessness, it is essential that we offer a varied timetable of free activities for people to get involved in.
The centre's Arts programme helps people develop new skills in areas such as painting, crafts, singing, drama, creative writing, sewing and photography. We work closely with local and national specialists to offer people good quality, fun and challenging workshops. |
Drama
We help get people involved in drama by running workshops and productions, as well as by arranging trips to the theatre and backstage tours.
The drama work has a transforming effect on the people who take part. People grow in confidence, develop new skills, listen and work together as a group, and learn to trust in each other. When they perform in public their self esteem can increase fantastically. Many members of the group move on to employment, to take up education and training courses, or have entered detox, as a direct result of the boost they get from the drama workshops.
The drama work has a transforming effect on the people who take part. People grow in confidence, develop new skills, listen and work together as a group, and learn to trust in each other. When they perform in public their self esteem can increase fantastically. Many members of the group move on to employment, to take up education and training courses, or have entered detox, as a direct result of the boost they get from the drama workshops.
The Booth Centre Theatre Company
An award from the Arts Council has allowed us to launch The Booth Centre Theatre Company in partnership with The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre. We offer regular drama and singing sessions, engaging rough sleepers and those at risk of being homeless in making high quality theatre and in all aspects of running a theatre company.
We produce two shows a year which are performed both at The Edge and at the Booth Centre. The shows create opportunities for friends, family, other homeless people and staff to see what the people taking part have achieved. They also raise the profile of homelessness and the arts, including members of the general public who have their perceptions of homeless people challenged through seeing a high quality performance produced by the company.
We produce two shows a year which are performed both at The Edge and at the Booth Centre. The shows create opportunities for friends, family, other homeless people and staff to see what the people taking part have achieved. They also raise the profile of homelessness and the arts, including members of the general public who have their perceptions of homeless people challenged through seeing a high quality performance produced by the company.